These paintings elaborate
the idea of extracting an instance of reality out of it's ordinary
context in order to experience it more intensely. The selections
are not random but are particularities that resonated for me
- stood out in the field of possibilities, those singularities
that somehow impressed upon me their essence.

The Paintings are in the tradition
of the Still Life as well as the Dada, Pop and Conceptual Art
movements. The WAY they are painted is linked to Minimalism.
There may as well be a Biblical reference also where "every
hair is numbered." We mustn't overlook the Zen moment nor
the notion of sacredization. Ah,... words.

It was fun to watch daughter
develop. I kept her first drawing, where I happened to be there when
she picked up a piece of charcoal & lit into a piece of paper. I
was there holding onto the seat when she finally took off on her bike.
She was 6 then, we were in Milwaukee. It was funny that she always
insisted on doing it herself, from tying her shoes to riding a bike..
& eventually a car. We did lots of painting & drawing together.
I was pleased, & surprized to find in one of her school books that
her favorite thing to do was paint with her dad. I don't know how
serious to take that but it's nice that that's what she thought of to
that question. She wouldn't have said it about music. I tried to get
her to play with my songs when she was taking piano lessons & that didn't
go well. And soccer, I knew nothing about it until she got on a team.
She'd done gymnastics for a few years but the soccer was much more fun.
It was a treat to see the incredible feats she performed in gymnastics
but alot of the time was waiting her turn. With soccer it was an hour
of fun. I tried once to detach from outcome, not care about scoring.
Didn't work.